Re: [boost] Is there any interest in a library that provides container

From: Dave Harris (brangdon_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-10-27 13:19:25

In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.2.20051026233845.06694ac0_at_[hidden]>
vawjr_at_[hidden] (Victor A. Wagner Jr.) wrote (abridged):
> OK, fix the core language so that I don't have to write the whole 
> batch of forwarding functions

You can use private inheritance and using-declarations, if that helps.

> AND I get the new ones automatically when std::vector gets updated!!

That's the controversial part. If you inherit from std::vector it is 
relatively easy for changes to the std library to break your code. The 
worst case is when the base class adds a virtual function with the same 
name as one of your private member functions.

You might consider using non-member functions which take a std::vector 
argument instead. It sounds like you are not adding any data or virtual 
functions, so your new stuff may not actually need to be member functions?

-- Dave Harris, Nottingham, UK.